David Frum

David Frum @davidfrum

RT @portraitinflesh: Another perspective on #Chanukah: my friend @davidfrum is always saying how the modern, commercialised version of the… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anneapplebaum: China and Russia are very upset that they were not invited to Biden's democracy summit https://t.co/AsR3B1rbyO — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a story from 2019 about China's troubles collecting on its Zambian debt. Zambia got a nice new airport, China got a lot of Zambian IOUs. And Western security seems unthreatened by the operations of the Lusaka airport https://t.co/vJUBXSh4e5 — PolitiTweet.org

David Frum @davidfrum

Here's a story from 2019 about China's troubles collecting on its Zambian debt in 2019. Zambia got a nice new airport, China got a lot of Zambian IOUs. And Western security seems unthreatened by the operations of the Lusaka airport https://t.co/vJUBXSh4e5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@pppioe They’ll get a court order from a Ugandan judge ordering the Ugandan government to accept an unwanted Chinese military presence on its territory? Sassy! — PolitiTweet.org

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For those who don’t get the joke: it’s meaningless to foreclose on a non mobile sovereign asset. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow, sure going to be tough on Uganda when China crates up Entebbe airport and relocates it back to Asia. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Acosta: Big four hour episode coming up at 3p… we’ll tackle the day’s news with @PeteAguilar @AprilDRyan @davidfrum @alicetweet @Barbar… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MJScott2 Arresting claim on page 55: on the eve of the Mutiny in 1857, 90% of the East India Company's debt was owed to Indian debt-holders. Which certainly helps explain why the Mutiny failed ... — PolitiTweet.org

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@MJScott2 The book argues that the East India Company prevailed in post-Mughal competition by offering a better economic deal to local elites. Above all, it was the most creditworthy player and so mobilized domestic Indian savings in a way no other Mughal successor could do. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s always an extra kick when a radically paradigm-challenging book carries a defiantly underselling title https://t.co/xinDn6Qzkj — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyGoldberg Your Big-Deal-O-Meter may stand in need of adjustment? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyGoldberg ... and sure his nominees for National Security Adviser and Attorney General lied to the FBI and to Congress about their Russian contacts as if they knew they were in the vicinity of some terrible secret - it's just that none of that is any kind of big deal!" Then may I suggest — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyGoldberg ... sure his campaign manager was sharing proprietary campaign information with Russian intelligence, sure he and his campaign falsely blaming the Russian hacks on a murdered man - and then suggesting that their Democratic opponent was somehow implicated in the murder ... — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyGoldberg If your defense of Trump is: "Sure maybe he'd been laundering money for Russian oligarchs for years .. sure he falsely denied that he'd signed a letter of intent during his election campaign to build a tower in Moscow ... sure he welcomed help from Russian hackers and spies ... — PolitiTweet.org

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Social democrats aren't the far left! — PolitiTweet.org

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ICYMI — PolitiTweet.org

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Poignant powerful column — PolitiTweet.org

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More "media" — PolitiTweet.org

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A thread about "the media" — PolitiTweet.org

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I do believe, "Truth is mighty and will prevail." I expect that this latest bizarro figment from the antivax/MAGA underworld will be smacked down. Maybe you can help. Still, I feel a certain nostalgia for the happy time, a few hours ago, before I'd ever heard of it. END — PolitiTweet.org

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I still believe "truth is mighty and will prevail." I expect that this latest bizarro figment from the antivax/MAGA underworld will be smacked down. Maybe you can help. Still, I feel a certain nostalgia for the happy time, a few hours ago, before I'd ever heard of it. END — PolitiTweet.org

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This industry will celebrate how their favorite Substack / podcast / Facebook star has achieved an audience vastly larger than that of Stephen Colbert or the Boston Globe - and never ponder, "So maybe it should matter that your hero earns a lot of his living spreading untruth?" — PolitiTweet.org

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We have this vast and growing industry of self-proclaimed "media critics" who define "media" to exclude the great majority of the media actually consumed by present-day Americans. — PolitiTweet.org

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But maybe it's time for the media that do care about getting things right - that employ editors, that correct mistakes - maybe it's time for them to act more robustly when they come under fire from the Fauci-tortures-puppies disinformation industry. — PolitiTweet.org

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But maybe when media that do scrupulously try to get the story right - that employ editors and fact checkers - that correct their mistake - that such organizations should act a little more robustly when they come under fire from the Fauci-tortures-puppies people. — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't have a neat bow with which to tie up this thread. Who the hell knows what to do about the antivax/Trump/Facebook/GOP 2024 nexus of bullshit? Not me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Self-examination and self-improvement are always laudable exercises. But the MSM people engaged in these exercises need to keep in mind: not one of the people who spread the Fauci-tortures-puppies story will ever do the same. They'll just move onto the next item, then the next. — PolitiTweet.org

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I have attended some of the many, many exercises by MSM people in which they hand-wring about their standing with the American people - in which they self-examine how to do better. (More interviews with Trump voters in rural diners? More CNN contracts for ex Trump staffers?) — PolitiTweet.org

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... it's illuminating to be reminded that - whatever the flaws/biases/limits of the so-called "mainstream media" - the principal alternative to MSM for most Americans today is garbage information like the "Fauci-tortures-puppies" story. — PolitiTweet.org